The Price of Consultants Not Knowing Access

I once spent a single day helping out on a project as a contractor. The task I was assigned was to "split Excel files." I ...

Bulk Import of PDF Tables into SQLite Database with Python

Handling table data in PDFs is a common scenario. Whether it is quarterly reports, statements, or business ledgers, PDFs are ...
Ars Technica

Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case

A judge has identified what appears to be the first time a US plaintiff has attempted to hide text in court filings that only an artificial intelligence system can read in a bid to win a case. In a ...
TechCrunch

Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes

Anthropic recently made the decision to watermark Claude’s outputs — inserting invisible code into the chatbot’s editorial text that marks it as AI-generated. Anthropic rolled out this new policy to ...
howtogeek

I started using Python in Excel for boring tasks, and it completely changed my workflow

Tony Phillips is an experienced Microsoft Office user with a dual-honors degree in Linguistics and Hispanic Studies. Prior to starting with How-to Geek in January 2024, he worked as a document ...
cloud

Bridging the gap between SQL and Python with BigQuery and the %%bqsql magic

Data scientists and data engineers often find themselves caught between two worlds: SQL and Python. Some find SQL more intuitive, especially when combined with a powerful engine like BigQuery to ...
The Palm Beach Post

Guns? Weapons hunters can use in Florida's python challenge

Florida holds an annual 10-day Python Challenge to control the invasive Burmese python population. Participants compete for prizes, including a $10,000 grand prize for removing the most pythons. The ...
The Hollywood Reporter

YouTube Will Let Creators Use AI to Insert Themselves Into Other People’s Videos

The Google-owned video platform also now has more three billion users, the company revealed Tuesday. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Sora may be dead, but some of its most buzzed-about features are about ...
Wall Street Journal

Writers Are Going to Extremes to Prove They Didn’t Use AI

As a professional writer, Sarah Suzuki Harvard says she isn’t inclined toward overtly exuberant prose. But these days, she finds herself going rogue. “I’ll use aggressively casual language, like, ‘hey ...
New York Post

ChatGPT users flummoxed after AI bot starts inserting Arabic into responses

English-speaking ChatGPT users were caught off guard after OpenAI’s chatbot started increasingly injecting Arabic words into its responses, as seen in viral social media posts. “It did it twice on my ...
XDA Developers

I tried Python in Excel with no coding experience and here's what I learned

Megan is a Software Writer at XDA Developers who has been writing about consumer technology since 2016. With a postgraduate degree in New Media journalism, she has always been passionate about diving ...
GitHub

An end-to-end exploratory data analysis (EDA) project using SQL and Python on the Superstore Sales dataset from Kaggle.

In this project, Downloaded real-world sales data from Kaggle using Kaggle API. Cleaned and explored the dataset using pandas. Stored and queried the data using SQLite directly inside Python.